The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-11-12
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-Towsontown, with a supply of good water
and Illuminating gas, will be able to take on some
real city airs and the first thing to be done is to
have the place incorporated as soon as the Legis-
lature meets. We can never hope to amount to
much as town until this is accomplished and il
is time now to be moving in that direction.
The tickets at the Towsontown polling place,
where 70S votes were cast on Tuesday, were so
badly cut up that the judges did not complete the
count until IL o'clock Wednesday morning, after
having worked steadily during the whole of the
night previous. At many other voting places in
the county the count also delayed for the same
reason.
In the Hampden precinct of the 9th district
there is a registered vote of over 1,700 When the
hour for closing the polls arrived on Tuesday even
ing over one hundred men were in line awaiting
their turn to reach the window, and who failed to
get their votes in. 1t is said that at least two
thirds of these men would have voted the Repub-
lican ticket.
Miss Caroline Gates, who was for many
years the highly esteemed governess at Hampton,
near Towsontown, died suddenly at Edinburg,
Scotland, on the Dist of October. Mrs. Ridgely
and her family were greatly attached to Miss Gates,
who, by her many gentle ways, had so much en-
deared herself to them, and they are greatly
grieved at her death.
The managers of the Baltimore base ball
club, who will next spring abandon the Oriole
late Samuel Brady, lot on the west side of the
turnpike, south of the Waverly tol-gate, which is
to be fitted up for the of the club. The fences
stands and other improvements on the new grounds
will cost about 500, 600.
The case of Florence E. Kane and her hus-
band, James Kane, against the BALTIC. Ohio X.
r. Company, was commenced in the Circuit Court
here on Wednesday, and will probably last week.
Mrs. Kane, who sues for 500, 600 damages, in July
10 81 hod of hnro nd from
the other hand cut off by falling under the cars OF
the company at Curtis Bay.
Tho Republicans of Hampden precinct of
the 9th district, carried their polls on Tuesday
by about 100 majority, and if it had not happen
ed that so many voters who were in line at the
polling place were shut out at o'clock, the ma
jority would have been considerably over two
hundred. For the Republicans that is the ban
der precinct of the county.
john A. Kichenstein, Jr., who was q son
of Mrs. Kilchenstein, of Parkvlle, on the Hartford
road, died in Chicago on the 9th inst, in the 35th
year of his age. Kilchenstein was at one time
law student in Towsontown and will be we'll re-
membered here. He led an eventful life and for
some years had been travelling about the country
with no fixed place of residence.
There is a crow roost in the large woods
west of the York turnpike, near Lutherville, and
thousands of the birds flock there every evening
and keep up terrible racket during the night.
As soon as the first streaks OF dawn appear In the
east they again take their flight for their favorite
feeding grounds and the amount of corn they con-
sumo at this of the year must be very large.
Mr.. Charles FL. Pitts, cashier of the Farmers
and Merchants National Bank of Baltimore died
in Boston on Wednesday. Mr.. Pitts resided in
the summer near Sherwood, N. G. R. R., where he
owned a pretty place. About month ago he
married his second wife, who was Miss Wilson,
of Boston, and he was on a visit to her relatives
when he died. He leaves four young children
all girls.